Mode of attaching thills to carriage-axles



C. W. GAGE.

Thill Coupling.

Patented July 23, 1861.

Ina/@75 UNITED STATES lirgl ENT OFFICE.

CHARLES WV. GAGE, OF HOMER, NEW YORK.

MODE OF ATTACHING THILLS TO CARRIAGE-AXLES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 32,864, dated July 23, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. GAGE, of Homer, Cortland county, New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvement-s in Shaft-Couplings forVehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the annexed drawings making part of this specification A, representsa portion of the axle of the vehicle.

B represents a jaw which is stationary being provided with a loop whichsurrounds the axle, and by means of which it is secured to said axle.

C represents a movable jaw which is secured to jaw B by means of a boltx. Each of the jaws is provided with short hollow journals a, a, whichare conical in form as represented.

E, represents the iron at the end of the shaft which is provided with anopening into which the small ends of the journals a, a, fit.

D is a bolt with a head on one end and a screw on the other, whichpasses through the two hollow journals (0, a, and also through the shaftiron. This bolt confines the jaws together and keeps the shaft iron inits proper place. It will readily be seen that when the opening in theiron E, wears, so

that the shaft rattles the two jaws can be brought nearer togetherpressing the journals into the iron and thus tightening it in its placeand preventing all noise and rattling. By this arrangement I make acheap and effective anti rattler.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The employment of the jaws B and C, one of which is movable, and both ofwhich are provided with sections of conical journals, when the same areused in the manner and connection herein represented for the purpose setforth.

CHARLES W. GAGE. lVitnesses \VM. ANDREWS, AMos HOBART.

